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...just a better model to have the computation and the applications use what we call a cloud, somewhere in the Internet. I, among other people, have been talking about this for 15 years, well before Google was founded. It turned out to be really hard to pull off. But now finally these broadband networks are fast enough that you can actually do it. You just don't need to always have everything on your local computer. So what I like about Web 2.0, as it's called, is that it's really the popularization of all this different technology...
...vacuum bags) grab most of the solids from the coal fire. You wouldn't want to eat off the floor, but the place is clean. Even the open-pit-mining operation nearby--which has scoured 15,000 acres of Texas for lignite coal over the decades--is a reclamation model, boasting ponds with bass and new woods with baby deer. "The coal plants of today are clearly not like the coal plant of yesteryear," boasts McCall...
...March 2007, it could become almost pristine again. Noguchi hopes the effort will permanently change Japan's attitude toward its mountains, just as taking up climbing as a teen changed his own perspective. "We must have a different environmental consciousness," he says. "I want to make [Fuji] a model for other mountains. I want to change Japan from Mount Fuji...
...collective for discussing the issues that are current in our world today for African American people and people of African descent.” At a bustling black-tie affair in the Cambridge Marriott, keynote speaker Stephanie K. Bell-Rose ’79 suggested a model of sustained alumni engagementent to Harvard and its black community. Bell-Rose, the founding president of The Goldman Sachs Foundation and a managing director of Goldman Sachs, suggested a three-step “collective strategic philanthropic approach” consisting of a Harvard Black Alumni Fund, selective social investments, and investment...
Though wildly successful, the MLM business model has opened supplement companies to a persistent complaint: the stuff doesn't work as claimed. Because independent marketers are not scrutinized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the business has long been criticized for pushing unwarranted claims through its network of sellers. "While you have the FDA breathing down your neck about what your company can legally say, distributors like Bob and Mary can tell their friends whatever they want," says Dan Hurley, author of the forthcoming expos Natural Causes. He writes that aside from fish oil, vitamin D and a handful...